Episode 6, scene 5
[Dr. Rossi and Laura Brooks leave the Peyton Professional Building.]
MR: Well, thanks for working so late this evening, miss Brooks.
LB: Oh, I'm used to it. Remember, I used to keep Donald's hours with
him. You must be hungry.
MR: Yes, I'm going to go over to the Inn and try the blue plate special.
LB: I'd ask you home, but . . .
MR: Why don't you come and have dinner with me?
LB: Thank you, I'd like to. But I don't think I'd better.
MR: Oh, Peyton Place, huh?
LB: They do gossip.
MR: Listen, do you think it will be all right If I walk you over to
your car?
LB: Well, I think we might get away with it.
LB: Uh, I don't sound like a prude, do I? I'm not. I'm just trying
to make you understand Peyton Place better. Quite different from
New York City.
MR: And so far, I like those differences.
LB: Don't you miss the city?
MR: No, not yet.
MR: What is all this?
LB: Founders Day Festival.
MR: Well, I don't even know who founded New York.
LB: It was Peter Stuyvesant, wasn't it?
MR: Was it?
LB: I don't know, you're the New Yorker.
MR: Well, you see, that's my point. You know who founded Peyton
Place. Even I know that. Sam Peyton.
LB: But, what do you know about him?
MR: Well, Let's see . . . Nothing.
LB: Well doctor. He was a rebel. Rebelling against strict controls of
the bay colony. He came here to live and worship as he pleased.
But before long he was imposing his ideas on everybody else.
MR: Well, What did they do?
LB: Some moved away.
MR: Well, I don't like to move around a lot. I like to stand my
ground.
[Laura changes her mind.]
LB: Dr. Rossi, I think I'm ready to risk a little gossip to have that
blue plate special.
MR: Well, I think I'll risk the blue plate special.
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